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  • It is a conversation between Socrates and his wealthy friend Crito regarding justice (dikē), injustice (adikia), and the appropriate response to injustice.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • It is a conversation between Socrates and his wealthy friend Crito regarding justice (dikē), injustice (adikia), and the appropriate response to injustice.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • I do not think that we have as yet discussed courage (andreia), - injustice (adikia), which is obviously nothing more than a hindrance to the penetrating principle (diaiontos), need not be considered.

    The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

  • Moreover, the noun adikia is found in the Pastorals, II Tim., ii, 19.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • The term is translated in the Septuagint, anomia adikia, and occasionally ponos kopos.

    Christian Doctrine of Sin 1823-1886 1876

  • The violation of critic law is [Greek: adikia] (injury).

    The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

  • I do not think that we have as yet discussed courage (andreia), -- injustice (adikia), which is obviously nothing more than a hindrance to the penetrating principle (diaiontos), need not be considered.

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • It is a conversation between Socrates and his wealthy friend Crito regarding justice (dikē), injustice (adikia), and the appropriate response to injustice.

    Jon Aquino's Mental Garden 2009

  • Besides this, it has three special significations; for sometimes it is used to express outrage, the proper word for which -- contumely -- is derived from the verb 'to contemn,' and so is equivalent to the Greek 'ubris': sometimes it means culpable negligence, as where damage is said to be done (as in the lex Aquilia) 'with injury,' where it is equivalent to the Greek 'adikema'; and sometimes iniquity and injustice, which the Greeks express by 'adikia'; thus a litigant is said to have received an 'injury' when the praetor or judge delivers an unjust judgement against him.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

  • For they give penalty (dikê) and recompense to one another for their injustice (adikia) in accordance with the ordering of time ” speaking of them in rather poetical terms.

    Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007

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